> > I'm very much an open source newbie so forgive the naivete of the > > question. Well - we all have started sometime :-)
> > should I be able to text and video message with others who use yahoo > > messenger - and if so how? With Ekiga unfortunately no. Yahoo is a proprietary system with closed and probably patented protocols. > > I've been text IMing with gaim but that doesn't support video. Well - check out Kopete. It has some webcam support but don't expect too much. > > yahoo messenger appears to be incompatible with suse and anyway isn't > > open source Well yahoo messenger is incompatible to almost everything that isn't yahoo messenger. Try Kopete or a Jabber based system (but this is text only also) > > anybody any advice Get your friends use something open - e.g. Ekiga or maybe Openwengo - based upon the SIP protocol. :-) Conrad _______________________________________________ GnomeMeeting-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnomemeeting-list
